Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-05-18
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Slppl river on the evening Oh Gne AooA
g, little out from the city OF La Crosse
by which Miss Letzke and John Boyer
were drowned. They were out boat
ing, accompanied by two half drunken
Germans who sought to brighten Miss
Letzke, who was the only young lady
in the boat, by rocking the boat. The
latter capsized and both were drowned.
The other two were saved
ONE hundred applications have
been made for farmers institutes dur
ing next winter.
The boilers and machinery for the
Central Company g new shops at Wau-
kesha have arrived.
GEO. WOLF, of the town of East
man, Crawford County, killed eighteen
rattlesnakes in den near the mouth
of Pickadee Greek. He was finally
bitten in the hand and narrowly
escaped death.
AN Indian named George Walking
Cloud was run over by the cars and
killed at Galesville. He was intoxi-
Gated and asleep on the track. Walk
ing Cloud was naturalized citizen of
the United States.
MRS. MARY RICHARDSON, OF Eau
Claire, lost her home and furniture by
fire on the 18th. Loss $1,000; fully
insured.
A FEW days ago a young lady called
on Edgar Palmer, a La Crosse dentist,
and had her teeth examined. Some
objection was made to the charge,
and in the evening an unknown man
called the dentist to the door and
pummeled him one dollars worth.
The commission house OF Steiner &
Haas, on Juneau Avenue, Milwaukee,
was entered by burglars on the night
of the 18th. The safe was blown
open and about $500 secured.
WHILE gathering cobble stones along
the beach near Milwaukee on the 18th
August Strehlow and Ferdinand Rusch
were drowned by the upsetting of their
boat.
The State Board of Charities and
Reforms has condemned the Price
County jail as unfit for use. A new
jail will be erected.
AN Swear old boy was arrested at
La Crosse for ent ering house and
stealing q valise, q watch, gold ring
and q sum of money.
WILLIAM GREEN, supposed to have
belonged either to Chicago or Evans
ton, is reported to have been drowned
while driving logs on the Big Elk River,
below the Musser dam.
A RESOLUTION to stop building the
county insane asylum was defeated in
the county board at La Crosse by O.
vote of 6 to Is.
The handsome elm trees on Main
and Pickney Streets, adjoining the
capitol at Madison, were planted while
Judge Knapp was superintendent of
public property, who says the state
has never paid for them.
AT Uhrig & Daevels coal yard, Mil
waukee, on the 18th, g. heavy stick Of
timber fell, striking Thomas Nelson, q
carpenter, on the head and inf1icting
injuries from which he died. He was
% years old.
FRANK ToLLER was elected city at
torney Of La Crosse at the special
election held in that city on the 18th
A REUNION of the Fourteenth Wis
cOnsin Infantry is being arranged for
in La Crosse, to be held in September.
The sawmills In the northwestern
part OF the state have adopted the
eleven hour system.
The new line of the Sault Ste. Marie
Railroad in this state employs q
thousand men.
JOHN L. AXE, second baseman OF
the Duluth base ball club, was drowned
at La Crosse on the 18th by the cap
81 Of
ions narrowly escaped q similar fate.
FIVE prisoners sawed their way out
Of the Ashland jail. Martin Meow
an, an ex-convict of the state prison;
Ed HawleY, Sam Mcdonald, Graham
and Sim Ryan, all awaiting trial for
highway robbery.
DISPATCHES from Eau Claire state
that William Green drowned while
driving logs below the Musser dam.
While searching for his body, the re-
mains of Chris. Yonker, who drowned
a year ago, were brought to the sur
face.
The La Crosse County authorities
have on their hands an insane asylum
location war. Aresolution has been IL
PRODUCED to stop the work on the build-
ing pending vote by the people. Th
Hon. Andrew e. Elmore addressed thu
board In favor ofcontinuing the work
as contracts had been made AMI
building was already well under way
A FREIGHT wreck occurred on tlB
Chicago. Burlington q Northern, near
Lynxville, about thirty miles south d
La Crosse, on Monday morning. Tb
engine of the train telescoped the cs-
boose OF another and derailed q nun
Der of cars. The wreck completeR
blocked the track.
TWENTY thousand rainbow trout
were planted in the streams in tb
vicinity OF Sturgeon Bay last week.
The house of Gus Ryerson, in th
town of Mt. Morris, Waushart
County. burned with it's contents. Il
MICHAEL MULYcK, of Eau Claie
County, captured nine wolves in one
day, the haul earning him O. bouny
OF 500, besides snug sum for tae
hides.
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